Friday, February 3, 2012

Fiction to Pass the Time...

Chapter XXXII

The travelers make their way to the infamous inn, where Sancho had
been tossed about, and enter for rest and a meal; and while Quixote lies down
to rest, the remaining sit down to eat with the innkeeper, his wife, their
daughter, and Maritornes. Meanwhile, the
group discusses Quixote’s madness due to the books of chivalry, and the
innkeeper reveals that he immensely enjoys reading those books, and has a few
himself, although the curate argues that they “are all fiction invented by…idle
brains…to pass the time.”